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 Stars of low enough mass that they'll not go supernova and  likely
 stay on the main sequence long enough for life to evolve will become
 red giants after they run out of hydrogen in the core.

 That's not the sort of star "death" we see (mostly because it takes
 longer than we've had astronomy).

 And the star expanding is more likely to boil off volatiles than
 freeze a formerly habitable planet.
 --
 Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
 shadow at shadowgard dot com

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Using our solar system as an example, could you speculate on what would happen when our sun expands into a 'red giant'?

TIA,

p.s. I recall reading, a loooong time ago, that the chromosphere could actually expand out beyond the orbit of the Earth, or maybe even Mars!

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